Cancer cures through data sharing

Cancer is a difficult disease to manage but still difficult to treat. However, many people have many thoughts on what it takes to cure disease and cure it. Maybe, some of them are practical and others are no so practical, however, it will take a revolutionary approach to come up drug discovery paradigms that help in curing cancer.

See the interesting link below in the Forbes article that discusses how it is possible to find more drugs for cancer through a KickStarter like project. Great article, but forgets to mention that the success rate for any discovered drug is low and also the amount of time it takes to discover a drug. The time that it takes to discover a drug is years or decades and that requires a different approach.

One method is to share data. Look at the video below to hear about the proposal to share data that can be used to develop new therapies.

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